 | Dirty Laundry: Text from boss U R FIRED! ST. LOUIS POST-DISPATCH When one of Mike Henges' employees didn't show up for work one day, he was concerned. So, he picked up the phone and left a message for the young man. Henges, co-owner of a door manufacturing and distributing company in Fenton, Mo., didn't hear... Read more | | THE ORLANDO SENTINEL Carl Ross, a registered mental-health counselor intern at Arnette House, a nonprofit organization that provides emergency shelter and counseling services for youth in Florida, is offering a... Read more | ANCHORAGE DAILY NEWS ANCHORAGE, Alaska _ Amber Sawyer remembers her classmates, young and giggly and still riding a euphoric teenage high, cutting class and sneaking off with boyfriends to the nearby running trails. In... Read more | THE ARIZONA DAILY STAR Oct. 6--In one Tohono O'odham story, there was a boy whose mother loved to play toka, an Indian game akin to field hockey. The boy followed his mother to faraway matches, only to be ignored. ... Read more | | | | | Beyond the Traditional Model THE BALTIMORE SUN Sharon L. Harris found out she would lead Baltimore County's first public charter school, Imagine Discovery, this spring, when she was an assistant principal at Windsor Mill Middle. Harris, 49, hasn't stopped moving since, selecting teachers... Read more | THE BALTIMORE SUN Dr. Charles Henry Bowers, whose career as a Baltimore educator spanned nearly four decades, died Tuesday in his sleep at his Govans home. He was 83. Born in Baltimore and raised on Fulton Avenue,... Read more | THE WASHINGTON POST The District could add as many as 20,000 students to its public and public charter schools by 2015 with the right mix of academic reform, affordable housing and neighborhood revitalization, a study... Read more | NEWSDAY Oct. 6--The effort to educate students about the dangers of alcohol starts much earlier than the first day of classes on many Long Island college campuses. At Hofstra University, incoming students... Read more | CHICAGO TRIBUNE Here's a story that illustrates the fruits of hard work and financial responsibility in America today. Rhiannon Koehler is a smart kid. But she also works very hard. At Northside College Prep High... Read more | THE ORLANDO SENTINEL TAVARES -- Money is tight. Enrollment is growing. And the Lake County school district is trying to figure out what to do with several empty schools and buildings. Two of the schools are older ones... Read more | ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS Lin "Eileen" Cong was born and raised in a region of northern China called Inner Mongolia but learned to speak decent English by the time she graduated from an international high school in Beijing... Read more | THE ORLANDO SENTINEL By Denise-Marie Balona, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla.
Oct. 6--TAVARES
Money is tight. Enrollment is growing. And the Lake County school district is trying to figure out what to do with several... Read more | | |
